{"id":20098,"date":"2015-12-18T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nanodevices-at-one-hundredth-the-cost"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:26","slug":"nanodevices-at-one-hundredth-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/nanodevices-at-one-hundredth-the-cost","title":{"rendered":"Nanodevices at one-hundredth the cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanodevices-at-one-hundredth-the-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microelectromechanical systems\u2014or MEMS\u2014were a $12 billion business in 2014. But that market is dominated by just a handful of devices, such as the accelerometers that reorient the screens of most smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because manufacturing MEMS has traditionally required sophisticated semiconductor fabrication facilities, which cost tens of millions of dollars to build. Potentially useful MEMS have languished in development because they don\u2019t have markets large enough to justify the initial capital investment in production.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent papers from researchers at MIT\u2019s Microsystems Technologies Laboratories offer hope that that might change. In one, the researchers show that a MEMS-based gas sensor manufactured with a desktop device performs at least as well as commercial sensors built at conventional production facilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-12-nanodevices-one-hundredth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microelectromechanical systems\u2014or MEMS\u2014were a $12 billion business in 2014. But that market is dominated by just a handful of devices, such as the accelerometers that reorient the screens of most smartphones. That\u2019s because manufacturing MEMS has traditionally required sophisticated semiconductor fabrication facilities, which cost tens of millions of dollars to build. Potentially useful MEMS have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1694,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-electronics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68988,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098\/revisions\/68988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}